Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Calling BS on Government Shut Down

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I got the below text in an email from Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders' staff:

"Charles and David Koch, the oil industry tycoons,have thrown their financial weight behind the right-wing Tea Partyextremists who forced the government to close. In Senate speeches, Bernietied the shutdown to the Kochs and other billionaires bankrolling theattempt to undo the Affordable Care Act. The New York Times echoedBernie's point in a Sunday exposé on how the Koch brothers "have beendeeply involved with financing the overall effort." But defunding thehealth care law is just the beginning. They also support a right-wingextremist agenda to undo virtually every major piece of legislation passedin the last 80 years to protect the middle class, the elderly, thesick, and the poor. On the seventh day of the shutdown, Bernie assessedthe situation in an interview on MSNBC."

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Is it costing every American $40,000 to $50,000 each, every year to spy
on ourselves? If that is the case, isn't that the budget problem right
there? Should we audit the NSA, CIA, the FED, and especially the IRS?
Are trillions being spent on underground bases, roads, railways, and
cities in the Ozarks US, for wars, and in protecting international
organized crime and bankers from their victims, us?

Following WW2 a series of tribunals were held by the
victorious Allied forces. These trials were aimed at prosecuting high ranking
Nazi Party officials on accounts of war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes
against humanity. The Nuremberg Trials had left an immense impact on
International Law. Later the Nuremberg Principals were set as a bench mark for
defining war crimes by the United Nations International Law Commission in 1950.
But are these overarching principles were merely set to charge the crimes
committed by the Nazis and not the victorious powers? Can they still be called
upon to try the modern day war criminals? There are widespread reports of
torture, massive loss of civilian lives, and destruction of infrastructure and
looting of wealth in post-US-invasion Iraq only; not to mention the fact the
US-lead war was not sanctioned by the UN. Are America and its allies above the
law?

In Chronicles of a Crime we witness US sanctimonious
approach towards International Laws and Community while committing unspeakable
crimes in the name of liberation and freedom in Iraq. Experts’ interviews help
the viewers realized what it means to be the one who has written the law itself
to be implemented against others and not one’s self.